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1 Khaula, daughter of Thalaba, who had been divorced
by the formula in verse 2, which was understood among
the Arabs to imply perpetual separation. This
Muhammad had asserted in her case; but in consequence
of the woman’s prayers, etc., a relaxation
of the law, on fulfilment of the conditions mentioned
in verses 4, 5, was hereby allowed. None of the
earlier traditions fix any date for this Sura, though
later authorities (Weil, 184) fix the end of Hej. 6,
or the beginning of Hej. 7.-The subject matter is
in part similar to that of Sura xxiv.

SURA XXII.-THE PILGRIMAGE [CVII.]

Medina.1-78 Verses

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

O men of Mecca, fear your Lord. Verily,
the earthquake of the last Hour will be a tremendous
thing!

On the day when ye shall behold it, every suckling
woman shall forsake her sucking babe; and every woman
that hath a burden in her womb shall cast her burden;
and thou shalt see men drunken, yet are they not drunken:
but it is the mighty chastisement of God!

There is a man2 who, without knowledge, wrangleth
about God, and followeth every rebellious Satan;

Concerning whom it is decreed, that he shall surely
beguile and guide into the torment of the Flame, whoever
shall take him for his Lord.

O men! if ye doubt as to the resurrection, yet, of
a truth, have We created you of dust, then of the
moist germs of life, then of clots of blood, then of
pieces of flesh shapen and unshapen, that We might
give you proofs of our power! And We cause one
sex or the other, at our pleasure, to abide in the
womb until the appointed time; then We bring you forth
infants; then permit you to reach your age of strength;
and one of you dieth, and another of you liveth on
to an age so abject that all his former knowledge is
clean forgotten!3 And thou hast seen the earth dried
up and barren: but when We send down the rain
upon it, it stirreth and swelleth, and groweth every
kind of luxuriant herb.

This, for that God is the Truth, and that it is He
who quickeneth the dead,- and that He hath power over
everything:

And that “the Hour” will indeed come-there
is no doubt of it-and that God will wake up to life
those who are in the tombs.

A man there is who disputeth about God without knowledge
or guidance or enlightening Book,

Turning aside in scorn to mislead others from the
way of God! Disgrace shall be his in this world;
and on the day of the resurrection, We will make him
taste the torment of the burning:-